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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• INGLESON, JOHN

Titel

Fear of the kampung, fear of unrest: urban unemployment and colonial policy in 1930s Java; Nyonyas on the Colonial Divide: White Women in the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1942; Urban Java During the Depression; Living Standards and the Distribution of Income in Colonial Indonesia: a Review of the Evidence; Labour Unions and the Provision of Social Security in Colonial Java; A sugar factory and its swimming pool: incorporation and differentiation in Dutch colonial society in Java; Taxi chauffeurs te B

Ist Teil von

• Modern Asian studies, 2012-11, Vol.46 (6), p.1633

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract This paper discusses the responses of The Netherlands Indies colonial government to the rise in urban unemployment in Java brought about by the 1930s Depression. At least one in six of the large European/Eurasian population in the colony, and an even larger proportion of urban Indonesian workers, became unemployed as a result of the Depression. The colonial government and the European community were greatly concerned that the growth of unemployment among Europeans would lead to destitution for many, ultimately forcing them into the native kampung1. They were also concerned about what they saw as the moral decay of local-born European/Eurasian youth who were unemployed in unprecedented numbers. Furthermore, the European community feared that the growth in unemployment among western-educated Indonesians in the towns and cities in Java would create a fertile recruitment ground for nationalist political parties leading to urban unrest. Fear of the kampung for destitute Europeans, and fear of urban unrest from unemployed western-educated Indonesians, shaped the colonial government's responses to urban unemployment. The impact of the Depression on both Indonesian and European unemployed in the towns and cities in Java triggered lengthy debates on the role of the state in the provision of social security. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]